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Impaired α-tubulin re-tyrosination leads to synaptic dysfunction and is a feature of Alzheimer's disease

Peris, L.; Qu, X.; Soleilhac, J.-M.; Parato, J.; Lante, F.; Kumar, A.; Pero, M. E.; Martinez-Hernandez, J.; Corrao, C.; Falivelli, G.; Payet, F.; Gory-Faure, S.; Bosc, C.; Blanca Ramirez, M.; Sproul, A.; Brocard, J.; Di Cara, B.; Delagrange, P.; Buisson, A.; Goldberg, Y.; Moutin, M.-J.; Bartolini, F.; Andrieux, A.

2021-05-17 neuroscience
10.1101/2021.05.17.443847 bioRxiv
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In neurons, dynamic microtubules play regulatory roles in neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity. While stable microtubules contain detyrosinated tubulin, dynamic microtubules are composed of tyrosinated tubulin, suggesting that the tubulin tyrosination/detyrosination (Tyr/deTyr) cycle modulates microtubule dynamics and synaptic function. In the Tyr/deTyr cycle, the C-terminal tyrosine of -tubulin is re-added by tubulin-tyrosine-ligase (TTL). Here we show that TTL+/- mice exhibit decreased tyrosinated microtubules, synaptic plasticity and memory deficits, and that reduced TTL expression is a feature of sporadic and familial Alzheimers disease (AD), with human APPV717I neurons having less dynamic microtubules. We find that spines visited by dynamic microtubules are more resistant to Amyloid{beta}1-42 and that TTL, by promoting microtubule entry into spines, prevents A{beta}1-42-induced spine pruning. Our results demonstrate that the Tyr/deTyr cycle regulates synaptic plasticity, is protective against spine injury, and that tubulin re-tyrosination is lost in AD, providing evidence that a defective Tyr/deTyr cycle may contribute to neurodegeneration.

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